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...fire of an era when even the newspapers had names like the Agitator and the Castigator. And the Rankins turn out to be a redoubtable clan. After a gang of armed men demanded to search her house for a runaway slave, the minister's wife Jean did not bat an eyelash. "If you do not hereafter keep away you will feel the force of powder and lead upon you," she told them. "If no one else would shoot you I would do it myself." Three cheers for muscular Christianity. --By Richard Lacayo
...ever wondered why most of the sporting public is blissfully unconcerned about the eighth World Cricket Cup tournament, which just began in Cape Town, dip into the rule book. Each match lasts up to seven hours, with each side at bat for three and a half. Even if a batsman gets out, his side may still be in. If he gets a bouncer from the bowler, he ducks. If he gets out before scoring any runs, he gets a duck. If no runs are scored from a six-ball session, that's called "bowling a maiden over." With a lexicon...
According to Wahlberg, no one on the Harvard baseball team knew the students involved in the accident but some players felt compelled to do even more and sent a signed baseball bat and personal notes to Yale’s athletic department...
...side, cherubic faces and unfailingly polite manners, Derek King, 14, and his brother Alex, 13, come across like choirboys. But the Florida teenagers were sentenced last November to eight and seven years in prison, respectively, after admitting that they had bludgeoned their father to death with a baseball bat. The previous year brought two other trials of Florida kids who had committed murder: Lionel Tate, also 14, got a life sentence for beating a 6-year-old playmate to death, and Nathaniel Brazill, another 14-year-old, was sent to prison for 28 years for killing his middle-school teacher...
...Bat Boy plays at the SpeakEasy Stage in Boston until...